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Re: Taxes from Lego auctions?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 24 Dec 1999 11:23:08 GMT
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[Yes, responding to my own post. New information.]
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 00:54:09 GMT, jasper@janssen.dynip.com (Jasper
Janssen) wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 05:12:51 GMT, "Richard Marchetti"
> <BlueOfNoon@aol.com> wrote:
> > Unless you are yourself a bank owner, I really find it hard to understand why
> > you defend banking practices so much.
> > What they do is essentially criminal in
> > the United States except that they are allowed to do it by law -- Title 12 of
> > the Federal Codes.
The latest news is that a court in Pakistan has just in essence
subscribed to your views. They say interest is against the the Qur'An.
By 2001 Pakistan will have to have an economy without the practice of
charging interest.
So I guess we'll be able to see in practice how much economic growth
that will result in.
Jasper
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| Jasper Janssen <jasper@janssen.dynip.com> wrote in message news:387356c2.218055...net.com... (...) understand why (...) 12 of (...) I don't think so. We have a party here, which defends fundamentalist opinions mostly, claimed once (before they came (...) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Taxes from Lego auctions?
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| (...) I'm gonna go with "none" unless they find some way to redefine rewarding the owner of capital for risking his capital as something other than "interest". I rank banning interest right up there with defining Pi as exactly 3. Both are about the (...) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Nitpick: Usury. (...) Because moneylending is as close as anything can get to being the one thing that makes this world possible. Do you know how many more times there is "virtual" money compared to real-world assets? Where do you think Intel, (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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